Forget yourself by becoming interested in others. Do every day a good deed that will put a smile of joy on someone's face.

There are always three speeches, for every one you actually gave. The one you practiced, the one you gave, and the one you wish you gave.

Today is life-the only life you are sure of. Make the most of today. Get interested in something. Shake yourself awake. Develop a hobby. Let the winds of enthusiasm sweep through you. Live today with gusto.

Once I did bad and that I heard ever. Twice I did good, but that I heard never.

I once succumbed to the fad of fasting and went for six days and nights without eating. It wasn't difficult. I was less hungry at the end of the sixth day than I was at the end of the second. Yet I know, as you know, people who would think they had committed a crime if they let their families or employees go for six days without food; but they will let them go for six days, and six weeks, and sometimes sixty years without giving them the hearty appreciation that they crave almost as much as they crave food.

There is only one excuse for a speaker's asking the attention of his audience: he must have either truth or entertainment for them.

I wasn't interested in making a lot of money, but I was interested in making a lot of living.